Abstract
Recent studies suggest that l-3,4 dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA)-induced dyskinesia (LID), a severe complication of conventional L-DOPA therapy of Parkinson's disease, may be caused by dopamine (DA) release originating in serotonergic neurons. To evaluate the in vivo effect of a 5-HT(1A) agonist [(±)-8-hydroxy-2-(dipropylamino) tetralin hydrobromide, 8-OHDPAT] on the L-DOPA-induced increase in extracellular DA and decrease in [(11) C]raclopride binding in an animal model of advanced Parkinson's disease and LID, we measured extracellular DA in response to L-DOPA or a combination of L-DOPA and the 5-HT(1A) agonist, 8-OHDPAT, with microdialysis, and determined [(11) C]raclopride binding to DA receptors, with micro-positron emission tomography, as the surrogate marker of DA release. Rats with unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesions had micro-positron emission tomography scans with [(11) C]raclopride at baseline and after two pharmacological challenges with L-DOPA + benserazide with or without 8-OHDPAT co-treatment. Identical challenge regimens were used with the subsequent microdialysis concomitant with ratings of LID severity. The baseline increase of [(11) C]raclopride-binding potential (BP(ND) ) in lesioned striatum was eliminated by the L-DOPA challenge, while the concurrent administration of 8-OHDPAT prevented this L-DOPA-induced displacement of [(11) C]raclopride significantly in lesioned ventral striatum and near significantly in the dorsal striatum. With microdialysis, the L-DOPA challenge raised the extracellular DA in parallel with the emergence of strong LID. Co-treatment with 8-OHDPAT significantly attenuated the release of extracellular DA and LID. The 8-OHDPAT co-treatment reversed the L-DOPA-induced decrease of [(11) C]raclopride binding and increase of extracellular DA and reduced the severity of LID. The reversal of the effect of L-DOPA on [(11) C]raclopride binding, extracellular DA and LID by 5-HT agonist administration is consistent with the notion that part of the DA increase associated with LID originates in serotonergic neurons.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Journal of Neurochemistry |
Volume | 120 |
Issue number | 5 |
Pages (from-to) | 806-17 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISSN | 0022-3042 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2012 |
Keywords
- 8-Hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Antiparkinson Agents
- Autoradiography
- Carbon Isotopes
- Cocaine
- Disease Models, Animal
- Dopamine
- Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
- Dyskinesia, Drug-Induced
- Female
- Functional Laterality
- Levodopa
- Microdialysis
- Motor Activity
- Oxidopamine
- Parkinson Disease
- Positron-Emission Tomography
- Protein Binding
- Raclopride
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptors, Dopamine
- Receptors, Serotonin
- Serotonergic Neurons
- Serotonin Receptor Agonists